The only configuration file for kdesu is in /home/user/.kde4/share/config/kdesurc. Usually nothing but password rules there, but you can check. The kdesu app comes in the kdebase4-runtime package if you want to try reinstalling it. I’m pretty sure that the problem is internal because kdesu is only a gui for su or sudo that temporarily stores your password in memory if you tell it to. Post the contents of your sudoers file. Also check /var/log/messages for kdesu errors.
caf4926 wrote:
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> Works for me
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> What output do you get in terminal when you do kdesu yast2
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I just noticed if I do kdesu yast2 it works but if I do kdesu yast the
console just hangs after putting in the root password. Since I always
use yast2 I never saw the yast hang until a few minutes ago. Could his
problem be something to do with the link from yast to yast2
(permissions)?
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Russ
[openSUSE 11.2 (2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop, x86_64] KDE 4.3.4 release 2,
Intel Core 2 Dual E7200, 4 GB RAM, GeForce 8400 GS, 320GB Disc (2)
I had this problem today and I tried to backtrack what I was doing before I had this problem. I remembered I was customizing my desktop and change the settings for the number of bullets to show when I am putting my password to three dots for every character I put in. I configured it back to default - one dot per character and kdesu yast2 works again. Check it here…
Go to Menu → Configure Desktop → General Tab → About Me. At the bottom, there’s options for Password Prompts. Select “Shot one bullet for each letter”. That fixed it. Hope it works for everyone too…lol!
Glad that you could remember what you have been doing before. I had the same problem. Would have never thought that the password entry mode had anything to do with that. Your hint helped me to solve my problem too.
Thx
I know this is an old thread. Had the problem just now and the above solved it for me. Thanks
On 04/03/2013 10:06 AM, jideogunmekan wrote:
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> I know this is an old thread. Had the problem just now and the above
> solved it for me. Thanks
if you have not moved that old (VERY old) version into Evergreen then
you really should do that right away…because the non-Evergreen
openSUSE 11.2 has received no security updates since May 2011
[cite: https://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime] and it contains many
publically known security vulnerabilities…
personally i would either make sure the machine is never connect to
any network (especially not the internet) or i never used it for
things like banking, online purchases, etc etc etc
those security hole can be patched with Evergreen, until November of
this year, see http://tinyurl.com/4aflkpy for details…
and, begin plans to move to a supported version, before then.
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